Substituted Bills; under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 899.
Subways. See Railway, &c., Bills. Sugar Duties; illustrative of practice regarding permanent or annual duties, 590.
Suitors in Parliament; privileged, 124; restrained by injunction, or by order of the house, 146. See also Promoters (Private Bills).
Summons of Parliament; by act of Crown, 39; Parliament meeting on its own authority, ib.; writ of summons, 41; Parliament to meet without, on demise of Crown, ib.; causes of, de- clared, 42. 171. See also Writs of Summons.
Sums and Dates; rules regarding ques- tions on, 384. 560. 619.
Sunday; excluded in reckoning time for election proceedings, 36; meetings of Parliament on, 42. 184; standing order (Lords) as to sitting of committees on, 847.
Supersedeas, Writs of. See Writs, &c. Superseded Orders of the Day, 264. Supplementary Grants, 552; debate on, 621.
Supply, and Ways and Means:
Right of the Commons in voting, 52; the Commons' right of supply, 586; taxes by prerogative abolished, 587; revenue of Crown dependent upon Parliament, ib.; demand of Crown for a supply, 545; estimates presented by the Crown, 546; messages from the Crown, 555; enforcement of royal con- trol over public expenditure, 558; over taxation, 563; use of existing charges, 567; grants needing no royal recom- mendation, 567. 570. 598; action by the Commons on the demand by Crown for supply, 587; imposition of taxation, 588; the budget, ib.; permanent and annual taxes, 589; legal effects of grants, ib., n.; appropriation of the grants of committee of supply, 593; drafts upon consolidated fund in committee of ways and means to meet grants of supply, 591; enforcement of appropriation, 597; reduction of charges, 601; packet, &c., contracts, ib.; Army Annual Bill, 602.
Appointment of committees of supply, and ways and means, 587. 603; of chairman, 603; of deputy chairman, 604; days of sitting, 605; first order on Thursdays, 259. 605; number of days allotted to supply during session, 605; method of computing such days, 605; arrangements for business on,
Supply, and Ways and Means-con- tinued.
259; number of allotted days given to a vote on account, 606; procedure for concluding a vote on account, 606; for concluding supply on last two allotted days, 606; no motion for adjournment on, 607; proceedings on, exempt from interruption, 607; questions put from the chair, 606. 607, n.; no instruction to committee of supply, 607; amend- ments on going into committee, 608; debate thereon, ib.; adjournment of procedure thereon, 610; revival of order for supply, 611; notice of esti- mates to be considered, 612; form of supply grants, ib.; ways and means grants not to exceed amount of supply grants, 592; appropriation of, 593.
Procedure on supply grants, 613; items of a grant proposed separately, 613; grants proposed by a minister, 614; procedure on supplementary grants and on grants on account, 614; British Museum grant, 614; grants not to be increased, 615; or destination altered, 616; method of proposing amendments, ib.; treatment of items, 617; debate in committee of supply, 619; on army and navy grants, ib.; on civil services, 620; on supplementary and excess grants, 621; general method of debate, 622; legislation not to be discussed, 623; committee closed, ib.; method of reopening, ib.; procedure upon reports of committee of supply 626; postponement or recommittal of, 628; amendments thereto, 628.
Procedure in committee of ways and means, 624; proposal of amendments, ib.; no increase of demands, 625; mode of proposing sums and dates, ib.; pro- cedure upon reports, 626; amendments thereto, 628; bills ordered upon reports, 629.
Committees on exceptional charges, 630. See also Appropriation, &c.; Con- solidated Fund; Crown, the Control of, over Expenditure; Exceptional Grants; Excess Grants; Grant of a Vote of Credit; Grants on Account; Lords and Public Charges; Public Charges; Report of Supply, &c., Resolutions. Supremacy, Oath of; cases of refusal to take the oath, 161.
Suspension of Bills; public, 308; pri- vate, 837.
Suspension of Members; early cases of, 56; for disregarding authority of the chair, &c., 340; period of suspension, 341; when force has been necessary to
Suspension of Members-continued. secure obedience to chair, ib.; motion for, exempt from interruption under standing order 1 .. 341, n. Suspension of Sittings; of the house, 228; at 7.30 under arrangements in force between 1902 and 1906.. 228, n.; of committee of the whole house, 389, n.; by the Speaker, in case of grave dis- order, 194.
Suspension of Writs, 660.
Table of the House; peers and peer- esses sworn at, 429; petitions laid upon, Lords, 532; Commons, ib. ; and papers, 542; Lords' minutes, 328, n.; private bills (Commons) presented, and deemed to be read first time, by being laid on table, 715-6. 723. See also Mace.
Tacks to Money Bills, 585. Tallage; levy of, 18. 586. Tampering with Witnesses before Parliament; a breach of privilege,
Taxation; feudal origin of parlia- mentary taxation, 586; by prerogative, abolished, 587; to meet the demand of supply, 545; responsibility of the Crown, 558. 564; to be proposed by a minister of the Crown, 564; reduction of, 565; imposition of, 588; permanent and yearly, 590; procedure in ways and means, 591; no increase of demands, 625; questions involving longer or shorter time, ib.; imposition of, to originate in committee, 558; but not of local taxation, 599; petitions against proposed taxes, received, 528. See also Public Charges; Supply, and Ways and Means.
Taxation of Costs; on private bills, 913,
et seq.; of costs awarded by committee (private or provisional order bill), 822; (under the Private Legislation Pro- cedure (Scotland) Act), 906. Taxing Officers; of each house, 914; powers and duties of, 914-5. Telegraph Act; confers powers of provisional legislation on postmaster- general, 882.
Telegraphic Contracts. See Contracts. Tellers on Divisions. See Divisions. Temporary Chairmen of Commit- tees, 381; closure not enforceable under, ib.; can put the question for suspension," 340; or direct a dis- orderly member to withdraw, 350. Temporary Laws; duration of, to be expressed, 503; continued during pass- ing of continuance bills, ib.
Test Roll, the; subscribed by members, 170.
Teste (Writs); interval between, and return of writ, 41.
Thames Conservancy Bills; public or private, 673. 683-4, n.
Thames Valley Drainage Act; pro- visional order under, 880.
Thanks of the House; precedence to motions for, 256; place of member thanked, 178, n.
Thanksgiving Days; custom of houses to attend service on, 185.
Third Reading and Passing; of public bills, 501; of private bills (Commons), 835; (Lords), 855. 862.
Thorpe's Case; referred to, 105. 132. Thursday; supply first order of the day upon, 259; motion to supersede supply upon, 266; no other business than supply to be taken before eleven o'clock upon, 259; or supply after eleven o'clock upon, 606.
Tithes; introduction of bills relating to, 600.
Titles of Bills; form of, 465; effect of title on an instruction, 479; special report, if title amended, in committee, 479; amendment of title in the Lords, 502; in the Commons, ib.; trans- position of titles by mistake, 521; short title amended, 491. 502.
Titles of Honour; the gift of the Crown, 5.
Tobacco; members not to take, in the house, 343, n.
Tolls and Charges. See Rates and Charges. Tooke, Mr. Horne; a member, though
in holy orders, 31; his application re- garding a parliamentary publication, 101.
Tower of London; committal to, 93. Town Councils (Scotland); and pro- visional orders, 884. 889.
Trade; (Commons), introduction of bills relating to, 464, n.; grand committee for, 392; standing committees on bills relating to, 393.
Trade, Board of. See Board of Trade. Traders; locus standi of (Commons), 767; (Lords), 849.
Tramroads; standing orders (private bills) relating to, in the Commons, 800. 793-9; in the Lords, 851-2; 855. Tramways; standing orders (private bills) relating to, (consents), 695, n.; (tolls and rates), 793; (loans), 794; (abandonment), 795; (completion), 797; (length of line), 800; (acquisition by local authorities), 800; (running powers), 800; standing orders relating to, in the
Lords, 851-2.855; locus standi (against tramway bills), 773-4. 777. 849; (of tramway companies), 773, n.; report of tramway bill (Commons), 832. Tramways Provisional Orders; by the Board of Trade, 875; by the Lord- Lieutenant (Ireland), and procedure on confirming bill, 886. 891, n. Treason; member convicted of, disquali- fied to sit, 34; petition from, 528; no privilege in cases of, 115; notice of Commons arrest of members for, 118; impeach peers and commoners for, 663; trial of peers for, 667. Treasury; authority given to, by the royal order, 545; by appropriation Act,
591; financial statement made by first lord of, 588, n.; first lords holding also chancellorship of the exchequer, 648; secretaryship to, does not vacate seat, 646; grant the Chiltern Hundreds, 643; expenses of witnesses before select committees paid at, 434.
Private bills deposited with, 755. 855; suggestions of, on private bills, 755; appearance of, before private bill com- mittees, 815-7, n.; provisions relating to, in the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 897. 899. 903. 904. Treating. See Bribery; Corrupt Prac- tices Acts.
Trevor, Sir John; expelled for receipt of gratuity, 84.
Trials Pending; questions relating to, 250.
Triennial Act (6 & 7 Will. & Mary,
c. 2); referred to, 41. 47. Triers of Petitions. See Receivers and Triers of Petitions.
Trustees; no privilege over property held by peers as, 108.
Tuesday Sittings; rules for, 226; notices of unofficial members at com- mencement of public business on, 257; priority to their notices of motions at a quarter-past eight o'clock on, 258. See also Monday; Two o'clock Sittings. Tumultuous Assemblages; near Par- liament, 524; for the presentation of petitions, prohibition of, 183; house when in committee resumed on occa- sion of, 387. Turnpike Roads (Ireland); standing order (private bills) relating to, 802. Two o'clock Sittings; on Tuesdays and Fridays before 1902 for Government business, 213, n., 265; on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, between 1902 and 1906 .. 213, n.; inter- ruption of business on, ib.
"Umbrella Case," the; (Lords), 65. Under Secretaries of State. See Secre- taries of State.
Undue Influence. See Elections, Contro- verted, III.
Uniformity, Act of; passed, the lords spiritual dissenting, 13.
Union with Ireland, see Ireland; with Scotland, see Scotland.
United States; houses of legislature of, enforce answer to questions by law, 87, n.; quorum of, 228, n.
Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge; members for, styled burgesses, 14, n.
Unopposed Business, 214, 222. Unopposed Returns, 237, 277. Unusual Expedition; bills passed with,
516; ditto, private bill, 837. 861, n., 722. Urgency Resolution (1881-82), 342, n. Usher of the Black Rod, 198; attends
with witnesses in custody, 425; has custody of persons impeached, 665.
Vacancies in Seats; causes of, 631, et seq.; by members, capable of re- election, 640. See also Offices under the Crown; Writs.
Viscount; origin of the title, 9. Voices; on a question, 287; bind the member's vote, ib.
Vote Office (Commons); distribution
of parliamentary papers by, 542; copies delivered to, of private bills, 723. 830. Votes and Proceedings (Commons); compilation of, 201; period over which they extend, ib., n.; entries expunged from, 203; journals prepared from, 201; questions not entered in, 203; hour of meeting announced in, 213; description of, 232; circulation of, ib.; Lords division search Commons' votes, 308; lists, printed with, 369; and petitions, 533; notices relating to private business, 714. 747. 833. 836; and reports, 832. See also Minutes of Proceedings (Lords); Notice Paper of the House; Journals, III.
Votes of Members. See Divisions. Votes of Thanks. See Thanks of the House. Votes on Account. See Grants, &c.
Wages of Members; amount of, in time of Edward III., 22.
Wales, Prince of. See Cornwall, Duke of. Walpole, Sir Robert; expelled and de- clared incapable of sitting, 56; use of king's name by, 329; resignation of office, 651, n.; held office of first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer, 648.
War; message from Crown respecting, 446. 556; address in answer to, 451; vote of credit on account of, 554; secretary and under secretary of state for, to sit in House of Commons, 647. War Office; and provisional orders, 882. 875; appearance of, before private bill committee, 815-7, n. See also Government Departments.
Warrant; committal without, 71; tenor
and legal effect of Speaker's warrant of committal, 67. 143; of chairman of election committee, 68; for examina- tion of witnesses on divorce bills, 860. See also Speaker, II. 3.
Wason v. Walter, cited, 101. Water Bills; standing orders relating to (Commons), 802. 803; (Lords), 850; locus standi against (in the Commons), 771–2. 777; (in the Lords), 849. Water Board (Metropolis); provisional orders relating to, 871.
Ways and Means, Committee of; an- nual taxes voted in, 588, 590; appoint- ment of, 587. 603; appointment of chairman, 603; retirement of, 604; pro- cedure in committee, 624; debate in, ib.; amendments in, ib.; Consolidated Fund Bills based on resolutions of, 557, n., 591; taxation not to be in- creased, 625; questions involving longer or shorter time, ib. See also Reports; Supply, and Ways and Means. Wednesday Sittings; rules for, 226; notices of motions of unofficial members at commencement of public business on, 257; priority to their notices of motions at a quarter-past eight on, 258; hour of meeting on, before 1902..213, n.; case of prolonged sitting of Tuesday, 183, n.; sittings on Ash Wednesday, 188, n.; Lords, 209.
Wellesley, Mr. Long; case of, 120. Wensleydale Peerage Case, 13. Westminster Palace, Precincts, &c. See Houses of Parliament.
Whalley, Mr.; committal of, by Queen's Bench for contempt, 120. Wharncliffe Order (Private Bills); standing orders, 842, et seq., 723-4; pro- prietors dissenting under, to be heard (before Examiners), 700. 701. 849, n.; (before committees), 779. 848. Whitsuntide; order of bills after, 260; and the first reading of provisional order bills in Commons, 891.
Wilkes, John; proceedings on expulsion
and re-election, 55. 116; extraordi- nary sitting on his case, 184, n. William, German Emperor; announce- ment to Parliament of death of, 454, n.
William the Conqueror; changes tenure of spiritual lords in Parliament, 6; summons a council, 16.
William the Third; Parliament meeting on death of, 42.
Williams, Sir William, Speaker, case referred to 138.
Witena-gemót; described, 15; freedom from arrest traced to, 103. Withdrawal of Bills; public, 317; on account of number of amendments made in committee, 491; of private bills (by order of house), 677. et seq., 728. 830; (by the promoters), 687. 827; of petitions against private bills in Commons, 757. Withdrawal of Members, 350. Witnesses before Parliament;
I. Privilege of Witnesses.-The privi- leges of, 124; tampering with, a breach of privilege, 75. 86; prevarication, &c., by, punished, 75; answers to criminating questions, 86; statements by, to Parlia- ment, protected, 125; Witnesses, &c., Protection Act, 125; Cambrian Railway Company case, 128; statements not actionable, 129; admissible in evidence, 130; acts of indemnity to witnesses, 431; sessional order relating to, App. I.
II. Before the Lords.-Summoned to attend, 402. 424; brought from prison, 425; proceedings against absconding witnesses, ib.; peers and peeresses sum- moned, 424; rule as to witnesses cor- recting evidence, 415; messages for attendance of members of House of Commons, 427; of the officers thereof, ib.; mode of examination described, 429; oaths taken at the bar, ib.; at the table, ib; before committees, 425. 429; perjury and prevarication, 430; expenses of witnesses, 434; summons to witnesses at impeachments, 665.
III. Before the Commons.-Sum- moned to be examined by the house, or by committees of the whole house, 424; attendance of peers, members, &c., pro- cured, 426; of witnesses in custody, 425; of clerks and officers of Parlia- ment, 427. 431; examination at the bar, 432; by counsel, 433; of members, peers, &c., ib.; proceedings against non- attending or absconding witnesses, 431; address for proclamation against, to originate in committee, 571; House of Commons formerly unable to administer oath, 430; power conferred by statute, ib.; oath administered by a joint com- mittee, 423; false evidence a breach of privilege, 431; report from a private bill committee as to perjury, 826; sick witnesses examined by committee, 412.
Witnesses before Parliament-con- tinued.
Select and Private Bill Committees.- Summons to witnesses, 402. 406; not summoned from India or the colonies, 406; summons enforced, 406. 425. 431; examination of witnesses, 430; wit- nesses, correction of evidence, 415; evidence not to be published before re- port, 416; expenses of witnesses, 434.
Private bill committees empowered to administer oath, 429. 430-1. 825. 848.
Witnesses before private bill com- mittees in Commons, 825; how sum- moned, 825; examination of, 809-812; from Government departments, 815- 7, n.; witnesses before Examiners, 700; before the referees, 762; before Taxing officers, 914.
Witnesses (Public Inquiries) Pro- tection Act; provisions of, 125. Woods Commissioners of; and the amendment of private bills, 754; before private bill committees, 815-17, n. Woolsack (Lords); vote of peer on, first taken, 359.
Words of Heat, &c.; in debate, 335. Words taken down, 337.
Works, Office of; and private bills, 815-17, n.
Writs for Election of New Members; motion for, made without notice, 631; when two days' notice is required, ib.; issue of, 54. 631; issued during session, 631; during the recess, 636; not issuable on acceptance of Chiltern Hundreds,
Writs for Election of New Members -continued.
643; moved to replace member omit- ting to take the oaths, 168; issue of, when election petitions pending, 632; supersedeas to writs, 635; Speaker's appointment of members to execute his duties in regard to issue of writs, 638; form of certificates to authorize the issue of warrant for new writ, Appendix V.; to whom warrants directed, 638; de- livery of writs, ib.; error in, 638; one election held on issue of two writs, 638; errors in return, 639; when no return made, 640; occasions for issue of writs, 631, et seq.; suspension of writs, 660. Writs of Error and Appeals before the House of Lords, 50. 51. Writs of Privilege; formerly applied for, by the Commons, 105. Writs, Prorogation by, 43. Writs of Summons; Commons elected under writ from Crown, 41; Parliament summoned by, 48; time between the teste and the return, 41; to name day and place of meeting, ib.; writs to peers, 152.633; excepting Scotch representa- tive peers, 152, n.
Writ (of Summons) under the Crimi-
nal Law (Ireland) Act; service of, in the outer lobby, 80; in civil action, as to service of, on member within precincts of Parliament, ib., n.
Writs of Supersedeas; to issue of a new writ, 635.
Wynne v. Middleton, case of, referred to, 135.
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